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Has Apple Created the Perfect Board Game Platform? 531

Posted by kdawson from the triple-word-score dept.
andylim writes "recombu.com is running an interesting piece about how Apple has created a 'Jumanji (board game) platform.' The 9.7-inch multi-touch screen is perfect for playing board games at home, and you could use Wi-Fi or 3G to play against other people when you're on your own. What would be really interesting is if you could pair the iPad with iPhones, 'Imagine a Scrabble iPad game that used iPhones as letter holders. You could hold up your iPhone so that no one else could see your letters and when you were ready to make a word on the Scrabble iPad board, you could slide them on to the board by flicking the word tiles off your iPhone.' Now that would be cool."

Comment Re:Revert interface to 0.8.6, or use OSX GUIfor wi (Score 1) 488

by mrzebra (#27447263) Attached to: VLC 0.9.9, The Best Media Player Just Got Better

Agreed. The new user interface for full screen mode in Windows is terrible. I will actually use it in 'maximum window' mode instead of full screen just so I can get the full-width slider bar. Trying to find a place in a two hour movie on a two-inch slider bar in full-screen mode is ridiculously difficult.
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Online Carpooling Service Fined In Canada 541

Posted by kdawson from the regulatory-capture dept.
TechDirt is reporting on a disappointing development out of Canada. An Ontario transportation board has fined PickupPal, a Web-based service for arranging carpools, because a local bus company complained of the competition. (TechCrunch apparently first broke the story.) "[The transportation board has] established a bunch of draconian rules that any user in Ontario must follow if it uses the service — including no crossing of municipal boundaries — meaning the service is only good within any particular city's limits. It's better than being shut down completely, and the service can still operate elsewhere around the world, but this is yet another case where we see regulations, that are supposedly put in place to improve things for consumers, do the exact opposite."

Comment Re:it does not matter (Score 1) 940

by mrzebra (#25102799) Attached to: Obama Significantly Revises Technology Positions

"GWB created a debt that will not be paid off for decades... "

Decades? America will NEVER pay off it's debt. Your country, as an individual, is no better than the person who just defaulted on their mortgage.

You are eventually going to run out of countries to invade in order to avoid your dollar and education system collapsing so much that your country as a whole might actually start to believe that Jesus walked with the dinosaurs. /oh snap. It seems like you're already well on your way there. http://www.conservapedia.com/Dinosaur

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